Re: [Sshpass-devel] Option for reading from arbitrary environment variable

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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/06/2021 12:56, Chris Barnes
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        <div>Hi,</div>
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        <div>There have been some situations where I've needed to invoke
          sshpass a couple of times in a particular environment. The -f
          option reasonably allows you to read from an arbitrary file,
          rather than saying "this will always read from the file
          ~/.sshpass": I felt the same advantage could be derived from
          an option to allow you to read from an arbitary environment
          variable rather than one with a fixed name.</div>
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        <div>There is a patch on sourceforge implementing this as a -E
          option: <a
            href="https://sourceforge.net/p/sshpass/patches/14/"
            moz-do-not-send="true">https://sourceforge.net/p/sshpass/patches/14/</a>
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        <div>I am not really familiar with sourceforge, svn, C, or roff,
          so I'm happy to receive feedback.</div>
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        <div>Thanks</div>
        <div>Chris<br>
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    <p>Hello Chris,</p>
    <p>Can you explain why setting an environment variable
      per-invocation doesn't solve your use case? Under bourne shell and
      derivatives, you can just do:</p>
    <p>SSHPASS=foo sshpass ssh user1@somewhere ls -la</p>
    <p>SSHPASS=bar sshpass ssh user2@somewhere rm -rf /</p>
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    <p>Does that not solve your use case?</p>
    <p>Thank you,</p>
    <p>Shachar<br>
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